{"id":3038,"date":"2023-02-23T12:07:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T17:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2023-02-27T10:47:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T15:47:44","slug":"winter-snow-balls-cancellation-leaves-students-upset-wheres-the-school-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/winter-snow-balls-cancellation-leaves-students-upset-wheres-the-school-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Snow Ball\u2019s Cancellation Leaves Students Upset\u2014\u201cWhere\u2019s the school spirit?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Riley Gonzales, News Editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Winter Snow Ball, which was scheduled to take place from 6:30 to 9:30 PM on February 17th, was recently canceled due to low ticket sales, leaving many students disappointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior Lillian Graham bought a ticket so that she could have a fun night with her friends. She shared that one of the things she was looking forward to was preparing for the dance, exclaiming, \u201cwe can buy dresses and get ready together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lillian\u2019s friend and fellow junior Melina Mazzella was planning on going to the dance as well. She said, \u201cI thought this was going to be a fun break,\u201d and explained that she wanted to \u201cget some cute pictures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senior Marley Cosgrove is another student that was going to attend the dance, as she \u201cwanted an excuse to dress up all winter-y and just to be with friends.\u201d She was upset when news of the dance\u2019s cancellation was announced. Marley, like many others, had already planned an outfit for the event. Some students had even gone out of their way to buy new dresses before the announcement was made, and will now have to find a new event to wear it to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the amount of excitement generated by the student body and preparation that the SGA put into the dance, not enough students bought tickets to meet the minimum requirement for the dance to be held. Senior Ariana Glenn expressed her own feelings about this issue, proposing a theory as to why the situation may have played out this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She laments, \u201cIt\u2019s frustrating because it\u2019s like, the fact that they had to cancel a dance because no one wanted to go was like, where\u2019s the school spirit, you know? Where\u2019s the school spirit, why is no one more engaged, why is no one more excited?\u201d Could it be that, as Ariana believes,  the Winter Snow Ball was unable to be held due to a shortage of school spirit at River Hill?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior Patrick Davis enjoys participating in school activities and showing off his school spirit, but when asked about the amount of enthusiasm other students have, he shared, \u201cI think that some people are more inclined to have more school spirit, while others feel more disconnected.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The majority of students agreed that school spirit was somewhat present at River Hill, though a greater effort could be made. However, a few students made a peculiar observation that might explain Patrick\u2019s statement about those feeling \u201cdisconnected.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freshman Ivy Nguyen explains, \u201cI see a lot of upperclassmen participating. For freshmen, they don\u2019t really care about spirit days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marley noticed something similar in the school hallways. She sees students showing off their spirit by participating in spirit week \u201cpretty often, especially among upperclassmen.\u201d Seniors recently won the Top of the Hill contest, being the class with the most participation in spirit week, so it is unsurprising that students would see many upperclassmen expressing their school spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s fun, y\u2019know?\u201d Lillian, an upperclassman herself says, sharing her opinion on spirit days and school events. \u201cGotta spice up school whenever you can.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few students also took note that some other schools in the county are more enthusiastic. Ivy stated that River Hill\u2019s school spirit \u201cis not as present as it is in other schools, like at games and spirit weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the SGA\u2019s statement about the Snow Ball\u2019s cancellation, they shared that they are \u201chopeful that we are able to offer fun events for everyone in the future.\u201d This means students may be able to look forward to mid-year dances in the future. If you want to attend more school events, then show off your love for River Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Message from the SGA announcing the dance\u2019s cancelation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Riley Gonzales, News Editor The Winter Snow Ball, which was scheduled to take place from 6:30 to 9:30 PM on February 17th, was recently canceled due to low ticket sales, leaving many students disappointed. Junior Lillian Graham bought a ticket so that she could have a fun night with her friends. She shared that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[405,286,281,269,211,402,403,404],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canceled","tag-journalism","tag-news","tag-rhhs","tag-river-hill","tag-snowball","tag-winter-dance","tag-winter-formal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3040,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions\/3040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}